2006-12-15 14:16:42 · 7 answers · asked by rian apple 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
For learning Mandarin, I always say it is difficult to speak, to read, to write, to listen. Mandarin is difficult because of the tons and all the similar words.
I also know a bit Japanese thank to anime, and listening is less difficult for me. Speaking aren't that easy because of the structure of the sentence. The writting is difficult to because you have different types : Hiragana, katakana, kanji and I always miss the last one.
Usualy once you know Japanese it is easier to learn Mandarin.
2006-12-15 14:25:24 · answer #1 · answered by kl55000 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Keeping it short: I've read that linguistically Japanese has a very simple grammar and that the intonation in Mandarin is impossible for almost all Westeners to master once they are in their teen years (some language ability is hard wired during pre-adolescence). Then again, difficulty is in the mind of the learner. My opinion of language acquisition is that unless you can practice what you're learning ANY language is very very difficult. So, to really learn a language not only is the language's innate difficulty (if there is such a thing) important but also what resources are available to you to help you practice and learn.
2006-12-15 14:33:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
mandarin is harder, japanese has fairly simply basic sentence structure and 2 of the 3 alphabets are phonetic, mandarin only uses kanji which is much more difficult to learn.
2006-12-15 20:09:00 · answer #3 · answered by Emily 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Japanese is more difficult.
Ask any Japanese if they all can write their kanji correctly.
Most cannot. Ask them if any are confident at keigo. Many are not. Ask any Japanese literature major if they could read their classical documents. Very often, they could not.
2006-12-15 17:26:43 · answer #4 · answered by Kanda 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on you. Just pick the one you are most interested in and go for it. Neither one is light years ahead of the other.
2006-12-15 14:50:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
find some audio samples one and listen to the two languages back to back.. i find the chinese is much harder to understand.. it all sounds the same.. japanese i find you can hear the difference between each word.. and much easier to pronouce..
pluss japan is cooler
2006-12-15 16:29:31 · answer #6 · answered by nola_cajun 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'd answer if i knew what "diffucult" meant.
2006-12-15 14:40:14 · answer #7 · answered by sally p 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋